Nicklas Skovgaard has always found creative ways to present his collections, but with his spring 2027 runway he proved himself to be a consummate showman.<\/p>\n
The action took place outside of a waterside terminal on a picture-perfect day with cottony clouds in a blue sky. The show opened not with a model but the arrival of a chauffeured classic car from which three women emerged and took the stage. They were a pop trio, the Skovgaardettes, assembled for the occasion and led by True Blue\u2019s Maya Laner, who performed live (including a Cocteau Twins cover!) as part of a collaboration with Brodie Sessions, a local independent music platform. Then another car appeared, carrying three more women, models, who walked their walk and then gathered in a trio at the end of the runway, a process that was repeated until the whole collection was presented. It was a triumph of imagination and the apotheosis of Skovgaard\u2019s character-building approach to fashion design.<\/p>\n
Skovgaard, who grew up with the Spice Girls (and identified with Baby Spice) was turned onto The Supremes, The Ronettes, and The Shangri-las while watching a Danish television series about the \u201960s. He started researching them, \u201cbut instead of just reusing the vibe of those three girl groups, I wanted to create a fictional girl group instead because I couldn\u2019t really see [the others] representing the collection I was dreaming of making,\u201d he explained. So \u201cI decided to come up with this imaginary girl group called the Skovgaardettes.\u201d (The designer was unaware that there is a precedent for this in fashion; Halston traveled with the Halstonettes.)<\/p>\n
Having dreamed up his leading ladies, the designer had to dress them. \u201cI knew quite early in the process that I wanted to build the collection in these small capsule wardrobes.\u201d That meant thinking about coordinating trios of looks, many in gingham. The opening was a half-and-half dress short and made of small checks on one side; longer and with larger checks on the other. The second mixed two colors but moved the fullness from the side to the back; and the third looked like a sheath with a peplum overdress. There were boxy, \u201960s-style suits with a youthquake spirit that didn’t look too vintage-y. Black leather pieces, including a slightly BDSM skirt suspended from a belt, were sweetly rebellious. Skovgaard, who has never abandoned his popular shirred jersey dresses, also continued developing the knit he introduced last season. A delicious addition to the fabric mix were pastel taffetas; the closing looks featured a floral jacquard.<\/p>\n
The designer, who conceived of the collection as a wardrobe to take the Skovgaardettes from day to night, describes spring 2027 as his most conceptual collection\u2014not that he would ever be mistaken for a member of the Belgian school. Rather, the best brain wave Skovgaard had was to follow his instinct and innovate rather than recreate. The result was a chart-topping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicklas Skovgaard has always found creative ways to present his collections, but with his spring 2027 runway he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[108,67238,5792,1079,1153],"class_list":["post-142022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-copenhagen","tag-copenhagen","tag-copenhagen-spring-2027","tag-nicklas-skovgaard","tag-runway","tag-runway_review"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117054108344937576","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}